Employment

At ELBA, we encourage our corporate membership to invest their skills, resources, ideas and perspectives to create innovative solutions to local employment issues.

'The business case for recruiting locally is clear.  As well as helping to tackle unemployment in East London, your business will benefit from lowered recruitment costs, higher retention rates, increased diversity, new business / increased market penetration, reduced travel to work time and good PR.  It makes sense to be involved'.
Graham Mallet, Thames Water – Chair of the ELBA Jobs and Enterprise Board

Other companies represented on the ELBA Jobs and Enterprise Board include:

How you can help

Job opportunities and placements
Your permanent vacancies form the core of our activity, and it is vital that we continue to receive your support in the form of permanent job opportunities. We welcome individual opportunities as well as a requirement for larger amounts. Your input here can transform unemployed people’s lives.

Employability Events
We are looking for employers to host an employability event. An ideal event would last a full day and include a tour of the operations, presentations from key staff (usually highlighting any barriers and obstacles they may have overcome on route to success) and finishing with 1:1 careers advice.

Company Tours
Offering a tour of your office building pointing out the different departments and areas is an excellent way to highlight the variety of job roles that contribute to the running of a successful organisation. It helps to raise the aspirations of local people whilst giving them the chance to absorb the type of behaviour and ethos required for the world of work

CV Workshops
These workshops are designed to give unemployed young people advice and guidance about the main principles for preparing a strong cover letter and CV, plus practical suggestions for headings, content and layout. You can also offer guidance on how to approach online job applications.

Mock Interview Workshops
Our interview workshops focus on the soft skills (presentation, communication etc) that local jobseekers need to perform well at interview. Structure includes tips on preparing for questions, presenting yourself positively, handling difficult questions and displaying confident attitudes. Practice interviews can make the difference between success and failure in the job selection process. This option gives jobseekers the chance to prepare for real interviews and to receive supportive feedback on the strengths and weaknesses of their performance in a practice interview.

Mentoring
We have a mentoring scheme that links individual employees into work. For many unemployed people, the prospect of having to look for work or start a new job can be a daunting prospect. For those that have faced the challenges of long term unemployment the prospect can be even more unfamiliar and nerve racking. The mentoring relationship offers jobseekers one- to-one support in overcoming such barriers.